Abstract Chemical compositional data sets of archaeological artefacts are often analysed using standard statistical procedures. Adopting a different approach, we examine the major element oxides found in Parthian and Sasanian glazed pottery by identifying statistically important ratios conjunction with expert knowledge scientist during, rather than after, identification process. This results me...

the first season of survey at qeshm, carried out during the winter of 2006, resulted in the identification of nine sites from the parthian and sasanian periods. the surface pottery from these sites suggests their trade and cultural relations with contemporary sites in the southern persian gulf and other areas. for instance, the parthian and sasanian glazed types in qeshm island are closely re...

jondishapour school was the first center of cultural transmission in the world among various civilizations like the greek, syriac, hindi, chinese and roman formed by permissive policies of khosro anushirvan in iran. the idea that iranian knowledge can be flourished with the help of progress made in science in different cultures was, for the first time, suggested by khosro anushirvan and his com...

Two distinctive features of Sasanian bridges are their designation as weir-bridges and function in the facilitation irrigation. This has often been used to emphasise a specific administrative centralisation. The author stresses continuity investments infrastructures, from Arsacids Islamic period via Sasanians. It is presented that members elite governing classes well private entrepreneurs provi...

In the site of Gird-i Bazar in Sulaymaniyah province, a Sasanian cemetery was found installed over, and partly damaging, older Iron Age structures. Although Zoroastrians notoriously exposed bodies then placed bones into astodans, inhumations are not uncommon such multi-cultural empire. After mentioning cemeteries same region underlining presence large Christian community Adiabene, author descri...

seals and clay sealings are the most important cultural material of sasanian period. there have been a few seals and bullas of various periods retained in the moghadam museum of tehran. these materials have not been introduced so far. authors of the present paper aim at to study and introduce the sasanian seals and bullas of this museum especially those bearing animal symbolic motifs. we do thi...